[aptalca]

Hi Tolriq,

Awesome app, in fact, one of the very few apps I actually paid for on android.

I love the design and how fluid it is.

But I just wanted to provide constructive criticism on the sync/refresh aspect

In my opinion, the only thing that is holding this app back is the current sync logic. I have tv episodes and movies being added to my library on a nightly basis and every time I open the app, it needs to sync.

I realize that Yatse keeps a local database of content, and only displays that within the app. But the problem is, the database is only synced or refreshed in full, not partially. With a relatively large tv show library, it takes my android clients 3-4 minutes to sync the tv episode library, so in order to even "see" the new episodes, I have to wait up to 4 minutes after opening the app.


What I am observing for tv shows:

Code:

1) I open the app and select tv shows
2) Sync takes about 5 seconds and tv show posters are shown with correct checkmark based on unwatched content
3) I click on Game of Thrones
4) I click on season 4
5) It displays 4 episodes, all watched
6) My xbmc library contains 5 episodes for season 4, because it downloaded a new one last night
7) Going back and reentering does nothing
8) It takes up to 4 minutes for the refresh to take place, and at the end blue light turns off and the 5th episode is displayed.

What yatse needs in its logic is to do partial updates when one enters the library. For instance, when I click on that season, it should trigger a partial update that only updates that specific show/season, so it takes a second or two to update the info rather than having to wait 4 minutes for a full tv show episode database update every time there is a new episode. The partial updates can lead to an update of yatse's internal database. (Full library sync can happen in the background)

That is how other xbmc remotes work. They display most library items by querying xbmc on the fly, and when they get the info, they display and update their local databases.

That behavior of Yatse also prevents me from effectively using voice commands. When say play the last episode of game of thrones after opening the app, it doesn't do that because the last episode is not yet in yatse's local library. I have to first update the tv show library, wait 4 minutes and then do the voice command.

With partial updates, you could also execute an update after the voice command so:

Code:

1) I open the app after several days and the local library is out of date,
2) I click on the microphone and say "play the next episode of Game of Thrones"
3) Yatse first updates the latest season of Game of Thrones (should be done in less than a sec), adds the latest episodes
4) Then plays the next unwatched episode

This would make me use yatse a lot more :-)

Hope it helps